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The Art Of Partying · Municipal Waste

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIKFS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Art Of Partying on drums

108 bars at 222 BPM -- fast, and 1:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-106 and snare through bars 107-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17, 19-20 and 23-24, and 5 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The Art Of Partying -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 35, 43, 91, 99 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-7 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-94 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Art Of Partying?

222 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Art Of Partying hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Art Of Partying?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 35, 43, 91, 99 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED